I think it would be very helpful info that we could direct folks to when they have the questions, we've ALL had about such things and our hosta!! Good idea, Tracy!!! :o)

Heavy duty construction adhesive would do it. It's thick enough that it'll do fine on the rough concrete. Read the label and find one that adheres to concrete. You could hold the molding against the walls with a few concrete blocks pressed up against them. And you can caulk any gaps, both along the top edge and the bottom one.

My 9 year old stepdaughter doesn't refuse to DO her homework, but she has been 'forgetting' it or has flat out lied to me & said she didn't have any, when she hid it in her desk. So, in that way... she's not doing her homework. When I asked her why she lied (and I think the forgetting was also a lie & that she just left it in her desk so she didn't have to do it), she told me she didn't want to do it. So, I told her that I don't want to do some of the fun things she enjoys (like baking, helping me with dinner or most recently, carving pumpkins) if she isn't going to do the things we want her to do. It has only been a week and she's been caught in a few lies already... again. I personally think it works better to give it less attention or no attention and shrug your shoulders and say, "I guess you'd rather not watch tv with us, since you don't have your homework done." My husband used to spend half his evening frustrated beyond belief because SD would guess at the answers or write down the wrong answer that made absolutely no sense & DH would erase it, try to explain it & end up yelling at her out of frustration. One evening, he was running around, angry/frustrated looking for another eraser. He was all worked up and SD was calmly sitting on the edge of her bed, humming to herself. I grabbed DH aside & pointed out... if she isn't stressed out or upset over her work not being done, why are YOU? I walked into the room & told SD that daddy is NOT helping you with your work. When it's done correctly, the two of you can sit and play a game or watch TV until bedtime, but if you screw around until bedtime, you will take it back to school unfinished & I will call your teacher & tell her why it's not done. There were a couple of days that she took her homework back to school not done & I talked to the teacher. Her teacher said that it's explained in class & she should not need help, she should know what to do. She then lost her recess and did the work in class. After that, she would get it done correctly the first time.. sometimes with minor corrections, but she'd get it done & want to spend time with dad. While in counseling, she admitted she wasn't doing it right on purpose because it meant dad spent the majority of the evening focused just on her. She didn't seem to care that it was negative attention. He was too frazzled to realize what she was doing & after I pointed it out, he's better at recognizing it. Now, when she comes home and says she has no idea what to do, he knows she wasn't paying attention when the teacher was explaining it. She's had an ongoing problem with talking in class & not paying attention. It really helps to have good communication with the teacher.

I'm finding myself agreeing with the others. A man who is emotionally immature at 43 is likely to be emotionally immature at 53, at 63, at 73... You were rebounding, understandably, and this man met your rebound needs for a while. Accept that this relationship was something you needed for a few months, but that it may not have the solid foundation necessary to build a real and lasting future on. Measure the relationship in terms of quality, not duration. You could "hang in there" forever just to prove to yourself that you're not a failure at relationships; or, you can move on, with the mindset that a dysfunctional relationship is NOT better than no relationship, and that it's a mark of self-respect to act on that. If his own relationship with his kids is not the best, then HE needs to get in there and fix it. And IMO, with absolutely no disrespect intended, having a third party there in the middle (you) is a hinderance to getting that done, and the kids will very reasonably blame and resent you for being there in the middle. By letting you 'deal' with his kids, he doesn't have to. If I've been overly negative about the relationship, then of course, don't end it altogether. But IMO, it still makes sense to call of the engagement for the indefinite future, move out and re-establish your own independence. Take things gradually, and see where they head on their own. At the eight-month mark, with the right guy, you should be walking on air, not struggling for breath. Good Luck --